Off topic: good lecture about Higgs bosons

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Permalink Reply by Mateusz Zwierzycki on May 14, 2013 at 3:22pm

"In case you care about this sort of thing"

I massively do...

Permalink Reply by Marios Tsiliakos on May 14, 2013 at 3:38pm

It seems that the got the theory "somehow" confirmed today..

Permalink Reply by Mateusz Zwierzycki on May 14, 2013 at 4:58pm

my head after 40 minutes of this lecture

Permalink Reply by Fred Becquelin on May 14, 2013 at 5:02pm

Gluons have always been my favourite.

Permalink Reply by Mateusz Zwierzycki on May 14, 2013 at 5:15pm

The problem is... I still don't get it after watching this lecture. There are so many unknown notions in it, so many relations and theory that I think it's impossible for non-physicist(particle physicist) to understand. The most confusing part is here when we can clearly see that we (as the humanity) know nothing about the mechanics of the universe. Maybe it's a matter of time to discover all types of particles (I wouldn't be surprised if it will be impossible for us to generate the amount of energy to detect the heavy particles), so the theory will be as clear as Mendeleev periodic table. By now the theory as for me (a laic) is out of any logic.

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on May 15, 2013 at 4:45am

I found the explanations of condensates and how fields award mass to particles very enlightening. Those were definitely two major missing pieces in my understanding. Now I'm down to only 5294 major missing pieces.

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Permalink Reply by Yoann Mescam (Systemiq) on May 14, 2013 at 5:26pm

(http://fakescience.org/post/26629316738/do-you-understand-the-higgs...)

Permalink Reply by djordje on May 14, 2013 at 5:29pm

Ha, ha brilliant !!

Permalink Reply by Ángel Linares on May 14, 2013 at 5:29pm

Nice talk, pertty clear for the subject...Now we need a good pedagogic plan to teach this to teens at high school :P The "old" standard model was way "easier" to learn :P